David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
Lingua: en, it
Pubblicato: 16 Marzo 2022
abstract
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s most famous book, published on February 1, 1996, turned 25 in 2021. In its first section, this special issue celebrates the novel’s silver anniversary with six fresh re-readings by prominent Wallace readers. The second section deals with the theme ‘transgression vs the politically correct’ in children’s literature.
Linguistic criticism • Madame Psychosis • Cognition • Children’s sexualisation • Fascism • Peter Pan • Role of literature • Gender • Malika Ferdjoukh • Franz Kafka • Motherhood • Offence • Alienation • Acknowledgment • Through the Looking Glass • Art • Identity • Poetic language • Self-becoming • Discourse studies • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Descartes • Hard Times • Metamodernism • Lewis Carroll • Sexual violence • Communication • Censorship • Voice • David Foster Wallace • Shoah • Cultural memory • Empowerment • Charles Dickens • Stylistics • Post-irony • Politically correct • Humanism • Political correctness • Narrator • Alice in Wonderland • French youth literature • Pinocchio • Children’s literature • Immoralism and amoralism • Gender stereotypes • Tennis • The Metamorphosis • Dualism • Infinite Jest • Lesbianism • Female education • Barbie doll • Joelle van Dyne